A group for Southern California model railroaders, model railroad layout owners and clubs to share their progress, experiences, tips and techniques with each other. All Southern California model railroaders, with or without layouts, are very welcome to participate.

Featured layouts can be of any railroad, time period or geographic setting, however, the physical location of the layout must be in the southern half of the state.

Members may post Southern California railroad events and railroad club may post news.

Discussions are to remain on topic and civil at all times. As this site is a resource and not a Blog or Chat Room, messages intended for one individual should not be posted for the entire group. Use of this site for commercial purposes or individual selling is not allowed. Violators of these policies will be banned from the group.

LAYOUT OF THE MONTH PHOTO: Each month an image from a local home layout will be featured here. The Layout of the Month Photo for April/May 2013 is from Jeff Abbott’s N scale Espee Oregon Division Valencia. See Message Post #5979 for more details about Jeff’s layout.

LAYOUT TOURS: A Long Beach – South Bay tour is scheduled for May 18 as are tours in conjunction with the Central Coast Railroad Festival, the National Narrow Gauge Convention, the Banning Train Festival and the 2014 PCR/NMRA Convention.

MAY 18 TOUR NOTES: (1) See Message Post #6071 for details about road closures in Torrance during Layout Tour #38. (2) Frank Kenny will NOT be open as originally scheduled.

PRIVACY STATEMENT: We do not sell, trade or otherwise share the e-mail addresses of our members.